I really like Michael Pollan's philosophies on eating-- "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants", and, "Don't eat it if your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize it as food." The food of my midwestern ancestors does not include many of the ethnic cuisines that I enjoy, so I've decided that for these purposes I have a great-grammas Chen and Nguyen and Tanaka and Singh and Santos and Romano and...

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1600 calorie diet
Food should not be bland! There are so many wonderful herbs and spices, vinegars, peppers, and other flavorings that bland food should not exist... unless you like it. Richly flavored does not need to mean high in calories.

I question any nutritionist who put you on raspberry ketones or any other snake oil.

What is a good inexpensive pedometer?
I'm a huge FitBit fan. They aren't insanely cheap, but it's cheaper to buy one that you will not lose rather than several that you will. The bracelet version might work well for you.

posted 08 Aug 2014, 02:03

Eggs anyone?
I love eggs, but factory egg farming is an abomination and I try to avoid supporting it as much as possible. When I buy eggs they come from hens that are raised in pastures rather than in cramped cages. Do a Google image search for "factory egg farm" and you'll be horrified.